You already know the drill, you choose an environment and start exploring, trying to surprise yourselves and to come up with new perspectives and understanding of the issues and debates within the new media discourse.

What do I mean by richer? We are going to extend our weapons of choice. I mean we are going to use more than text for our posts:

Audio (podcasts)

Videos (vodcasts)

Slideshows

Comic strips

Flash animations

Software

Annotated Maps

Annotated webpages

Your medium of choice here

The post itself would use “rich” media as its leading medium for the post (with text used to fill in the blanks), the comments are still textual (Not to say you can’t post a video response if you so wish).

I want YOU to be the producers of the rich-media you post (no: “Look what I’ve found on YouTube. Done”).

For the class after Spring Break (March 23rd):

Choose a subject. If you want our feedback on your ideas, post them by Saturday 4pm, so you can still create the content in time.

Post a short introduction post to your travelogue using the rich format. Try to present both your area of research and the media of choice.

Refer to the how-to page to learn more about how to post different stuff. If you have questions, search the web, if the web has answers, share them with us.

If you still do not know how to post your thing, email me, I am very open to adding plug-ins to our WordPress. If you want me to do that, email me after researching the plugins. (I recommend you try to solve things by yourselves prior to asking me for help)

I am open to collaborations (in the price of higher expectations).

Post 4+ comments to your fellow students posts. Try to give constructive feedback on both content and use of media.